An Qing was drinking and wandering around. He had no intention of finding an inn to rest. He wanted to see where monks often went.
After all, monks rely on various resources to practice. If everyone stays in the city, how can they become immortals or achieve enlightenment?
Fortunately, there was no distinction between day and night here. An Qing found groups of underwater monks in a spacious square. It took him a while to find out some useful things, and he also had a general understanding of the underwater world.
The monks here all call themselves water tribe monks.
This sea area is called the Snow Sea, which is an inland sea deep in the wilderness.
Even if it is the sea, the water is not salty, but who stipulates that seawater must be salty?
An Qing was stunned for a moment and found it a bit funny, so he stopped worrying about this issue.
There are many types of aquatic monks, but no matter what type of aquatic monk they are, they will not draw a circle for themselves in the way that birds of a feather flock together, because whether you are a fish, a shrimp, or a crab, as long as you can cultivate spiritual wisdom, you can do it. Known as the water tribe, they are protected by the royal family.
The royal family of the Shui tribe, one of the ten ancient tribes.
All sea creatures without intelligence are inferior creatures and will be eaten or destroyed. No water tribe monk will be angry about this.
An Qing has heard about the Shui Tribe royal family more than a thousand times here, but he has never seen one.
Whenever every water tribe monk mentions the royal family, the expression on their face is one of awe.
"Boy, are you new here?" A hundred-meridian monk with a strange fish head patted An Qing's shoulder and said proudly: "If you want to know what the royal family looks like, just take a look at the statue at the back. .”
The weird fish-headed monk has two protruding fish eyes and an O-shaped mouth, which is very unusual.
He didn't dare to point at the statue for fear of being beaten to death by other water tribe monks who saw it.
An Qing turned around curiously and saw a very huge statue in the center of the square, and then he suddenly realized.
Master Jian said with disdain: "Tsk! Isn't it just a mermaid? Do the ten ancient tribes look like this?"
An Qing was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "Have you seen it?"
Master Jian said indifferently: "I've seen it before. Isn't it just a fish tail, with the upper body of a human being?"
An Qing smiled.
The statue is located in the center, depicting a heroic mermaid holding a trident. It is indeed as Jianye said. Although the location is obvious, An Qing was busy trying to find out the news when he arrived, so he didn't notice it.
The mermaid tribe is the supreme existence among the aquatic tribe.
An Qing looked at it for a while and then left. No matter how powerful the mermaid clan was, it had no impact on him.
"Little brother, stay..."
Just when An Qing was about to leave, the weird fish-headed monk caught up with him.
An Qing turned his head and looked up and down, "Is something wrong?"
The weird fish-headed monk smiled and said, "Little brother, are you a monk who just left the cave?"
An Qing remained calm.
The weird fish-headed monk added, "Don't get me wrong, little brother. I just want to invite you to explore the ruins together."
"Ruins exploration?" An Qing was stunned for a moment.
Seeing An Qing's confused look, the strange fish-headed monk became even more certain that An Qing must be a monk who had just emerged from the cave, because the water tribe monks would not easily leave their hidden cave before they had reached the Hundred Meridians Realm. Yes, once discovered by the same kind, they will most likely be caught and eaten.
There are billions of aquatic creatures in the snow sea, and it is natural law for the big ones to eat the small ones, especially for the newly born intelligent aquatic creatures.
For water tribe monks, it is a great supplement.
Once discovered, they will never be let go.
Therefore, once an aquatic creature is born with spiritual intelligence, the first thing that comes to mind is to hide it, and only dare to leave after cultivating beyond the realm.
"Little brother, don't you know that there are many ancient ruins under the water, and there are all kinds of rare treasures there. If you are lucky enough to get one or two, you will have enough food and clothing, and if you sell them for a good price, you can still come to the city. I’m selling it into Lingbei to buy other things.”
The weird fish-headed monk explained seriously.
An Qing also became interested after hearing this, "When will we set off?"
Seeing An Qing readily agreed, the weird fish-headed monk said happily: "Let's set off at the ugly time. There is still a while. Do you want to follow me to see other Taoist friends?"
An Qing smiled and said, "Brother, please lead the way."
The strange fish-headed monk led An Qing to one side and introduced: "By the way, I haven't asked my little brother what his name is yet."
An Qing smiled and said: "My surname is An, and my first name is Qing."
"An Qing..." Nian, the weird fish-headed monk, thought for a moment and nodded with a smile: "What a good name. My name is Kong Hai."
An Qing replied: "Brother Kong is not bad either."
The two looked at each other and smiled.
Soon, Kong Hai led him to a secluded courtyard. After entering, all the water was separated. Kong Hai pointed to the backyard and said: "Brother An, please come inside. Several Taoist friends are there."
An Qing nodded and went in.
As soon as he entered, he saw three people sitting in the courtyard, all of them had transformed into human forms, two men and one woman.
The woman is wearing palace clothes and is quite pretty, and the other two men are one old and one middle-aged.
Except for the old man who was at the Dan Palace level, the other two were at the Bone Tempering level.
The three of them looked back at Kong Hai and all smiled. However, when they saw An Qing, they were obviously stunned, and the old man snorted obviously.
"Kong Kong, didn't I tell you to find someone with cultivation level in the Alchemy Palace? How could you find a young boy?" Before An Qing could approach, the old man said displeasedly.
Kong Hai said helplessly: "Mr. Li, it's not that I don't want to look for him, but the request you made is too harsh. I've been looking for him for a long time but no one is willing."
Li Daoren squinted and said, "Then you just find a young boy to play tricks on you?"
Kong Hai said: "Mr. Li, this little brother has just left the cave. I think he has reached the peak of bone tempering and should be able to become a big help for our expedition, so I invited him here."
"oh?"
When the three of them heard this, they all became interested in An Qing. They all used their spiritual thoughts to look at it, and they all nodded.
Taoist Li put aside his unhappy expression, clasped his fists at An Qing and said with a smile, "Don't be surprised, little friend. It's just that this expedition to the ruins is more dangerous, so I have to be more cautious."
An Qing perked up as soon as he heard that there was danger, and said with a cupped hand: "It doesn't matter, I just came out of the cave, I don't know about exploring the ruins, I just accepted the invitation out of curiosity."
Yu Li, a woman in palace attire, chuckled and said, "My little brother has already reached the bone-tempering stage at a young age. He will definitely have a bright future in the future."
An Qing waved his hand and said, "Fellow Taoist, this is a ridiculous compliment, not worth mentioning."
After a few people exchanged greetings, they said each other's names.
After An Qing sat down, he said: "I wonder where the ruins that you fellow Taoists are going to are, and what treasures are there? I see that all of you fellow Taoists look very solemn."
The four of them looked at each other and then at the courtyard that had been locked and separated by a soundproof formation.
Li Daoren said: "We found this expedition ten years ago. There is a buried ancient ruins..." Li Daoren said this, stopped briefly, and looked at After taking a look at a few people, he lowered his voice and continued mysteriously: "A few of us passed by there and found that there was a collapse, and there was light coming from the collapse, so we went to check out out of curiosity, but we didn't expect to see it. There is a huge ruin inside, and there are also spirit creatures that have become spirits. However, because there are no Dao soldiers who can break the powerful restrictions, they do not force their way in. Instead, they bury the place and wait until they are ready next time to go there. I thought it would take ten years to wait.”
Hearing this, An Qing glanced at the four confident people and said with a smile: "Looking at the confident expressions of all of you fellow Taoists, you must have found what you need."
Yuli smiled and said, "That's natural."
An Qing wondered: "Since you fellow Taoists have already found the Taoist soldiers you need, why do you still invite me?"
Now that we have found the forbidden Taoist soldiers, if we find another person, wouldn't it be just one more person to share with?
An Qing is not stupid and will not believe in pie in the sky.
If the four people didn't explain the reason clearly, An Qing would just pat his ass and leave.
There is no convincing reason. Who knows what their plans are?
Even if An Qing believed that he could save his life when facing the four of them, he didn't want to provoke his enemies for no reason.
Taoist Li seemed to have heard the meaning of An Qing's words, and smiled and said: "Little friend An, the reason why we need to find another Taoist friend is entirely because this Taoist soldier must have five people."
"Oh?" An Qing looked at Taoist Li calmly, "What kind of Taoist soldier is it? Can you take a look?"
Li Daoren seemed to be in a good mood, and laughed and said, "What's wrong?" After saying that, he patted the leather storage bag on his waist, and a ball of light immediately flew out.
Li Daoren had quick eyes and quick hands. He grabbed the ball of light with a wave of his sleeves and blew on it. The light dispersed, revealing a disc made of bronze. Li Daoren glanced at An Qing and threw it away, "Little friend An, please look."
An Qing stretched out two fingers to catch the flying disk. After sweeping it with his spiritual mind, he asked doubtfully: "What is this?"
This plate is engraved with the ancient aquatic spiritual patterns of the five elements of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth. An Qing can only recognize the meaning of the patterns, but has no way of knowing its specific use.
The middle-aged man Zhu Tao smiled gently and said: "Brother An, this disk is called the Five Elements Breaking Formation Disk. As the name suggests, it is used to break powerful restrictions. We have spent a lot of effort on this disk over the years."
An Qing nodded suddenly, but then became confused, "As far as I know, don't Taoist weapons such as the Five Elements require monks with the power of the Five Elements to use them?"
Taoist Li smiled bitterly and said: "Little friend An, how can there be any monks who practice the power of the Five Elements nowadays? As far as I know, it was only common in ancient times. Nowadays, monks who specialize in the power of the Five Elements are simply rare and hard to find. "
An Qing was stunned for a moment when he heard this, but when he thought about it carefully, it seemed that this was exactly the case.
If a certain innate constitution is not related to the Five Elements, no one would be willing to cultivate one kind of strength alone.
Although the current Lingyuan crystals and Lingbei both have five elements attributes, when practicing Dao Jing exercises, Lingyuan is used as a supplementary Daoyuan. Indeed, there is no one who only cultivates one attribute.
Master Jian suddenly said in An Qing's heart: "Boy, times have changed. Any cultivation method must follow the trend. If it were still the same as before, it is estimated that the monks in this world would have been finished long ago."
An Qing nodded. He did see an introduction to the practice of cultivation in the ancient times in the ancient books collected by Zulong Xiyuan. The monks at that time were not like today, who only cultivated one attribute.
